How do you describe an album out of time, concerned with the disappearance of culture, of humanity, of nature, of logic and emotion? Why make this album in an era when attention spans have been reduced to next to nothing, and the tactile grains of making
Parquet Courts second album (2012) is "an almost dizzying nonstop array of infectious melodies, tangled guitar riffs, and brainy one-liners." - Stereogum
An intensely beautiful, intensely difficult record. It is reclusive, cryptic, late-night paranoia music, so unsettling and loud that at times it's almost too intimate, even in the absence of any real identifying details.
Parquet Courts' thought-provoking rock is dancing to a new tune. Sympathy For Life finds the Brooklyn band at both their most instinctive & electronic, spinning their bewitching storytelling into fresh territory, yet maintaining their unique identity.